Finance Manager

DESCRIPTION

Finance is all about the numbers…unless you work at Company; it’s knowing the numbers and so much more. Enthusiasm helps us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily? At Company, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires we work with a dynamic network of Operations, HR, Tech and Retail partners. Our goal in finance is to be *the* trusted business advisor.

Company seeks a Finance Manager for the Global Delivery Experience team. Delivery Experience (DEX) has responsibility for all customer facing shipping policies for Company globally. The vision of the Delivery Experience and Programs organization is that everyone in the world is inspired to shop at Company because our delivery offers improve their lives, making the Earth’s largest selection available when, where and how they want it. The DEX portfolio includes Prime shipping benefits, non-Prime free shipping, specialty programs for items that are unusually large/heavy (e.g. Scheduled Delivery) or unusually small and inexpensive (Add-on Items), programs that increase delivery convenience, incentives to choose delivery offers (e.g. No-Rush), and shipping prices.

The Finance Manager will be responsible for driving scalable, efficient, value-add processes for reporting, planning and managing the business. They must exercise strong judgement about where to invest resources, be able to operate autonomously while also rolling up sleeves to deliver results.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Drive annual and multi-year budgeting and planning process.
• Lead monthly analysis of operating plan budget to actual results.
• Create mechanisms for evaluating resource trade-offs.
• Drive best practices within DEX Finance
• Interact with stakeholders at multiple levels and lead teams to define and deliver solutions.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation & change management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs.
• Translate multi-year goal statements into fundamental key performance indicators which can be used to effectively diagnose positive or negative trends and support business decisions.
• Foster constructive and proactive communication across organizational boundaries.
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Simplify and standardize reporting across the worldwide businesses.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 6+ years in finance roles with progressively increasing levels of responsibility
• Strong proficiency with Excel, COGNOS/TM1, SQL

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• MBA, CFA/CPA, or Masters in a quantitative field
• Ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment including an ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and drive projects to completion.